Twitter Erupts Over Misogynistic Goodfellas Article

Yesterday, the New York Post’s chief film critic, Kyle Smith, wrote an article entitled, “Women are not capable of understanding Goodfellas.” Unfortunately for Smith, it’s 2015—and his baseless, laughably misogynistic article is not going over particularly well.

Smith’s thesis reads: “To a woman, the ‘GoodFellas’ are lowlifes. To guys, they’re hilarious, they’re heroes.” He continues to shove his foot further in his mouth by claiming that women are just “Sex and the City girls” who sit around at an all-you-can-sympathize brunch, while men live a more enlightened existence and “endlessly bust each other’s balls.”

A large portion of Smith’s argument comes down to having balls and being able to bust said balls: “At its core, Goodfellas is a story of ball-busting etiquette.” He claims that women cannot be present for “ball busting” because they are too sensitive: “They get offended, protest that someone’s not being fair, refuse to laugh at vicious put-downs.”

Of course, in the day since the article has been published, Smith is getting the ball-busting of a lifetime on Twitter. Here, the most scathing, incisive, and hilarious tweets in response. (Hey, Kyle, don’t forget your own rule: “Be a man, be tough, and always keep the party going.”)